Business & Economy

What Happened To Nigeria’s $20 Billion?

Nigeria is subliminally going through perilous times. Unfortunately, the factors responsible forthese conditions are dangerously explained away politically. The people are hit by mute...

Banks Are Not My Business

Whenever I see any bank and the ill-assorted characters called bankers in their foppish coats I suffer an extravagance of laughter. The Poet does not...

How Decisive Monetary Policy Is Powering Nigeria’s Economic Resilience and Growth

In an era marked by global economic volatility, few nations have demonstrated strength and foresight of Nigeria’s Central Bank and its Monetary Policy Committee...

The Bad Example of Zenith Bank

When the news broke some weeks ago that Zenith Bank had declared an annual profit of 230.5 billion naira for 2020, it crossed my...

Is the Conditional Cash Transfer feeding on the blood of the Poor?

In the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, we suddenly come to terms with many dysfunctional aspects of our life as a country. One...

NIPOST, FIRS and Stamp Duty Collection

It is neither a bad idea for the Federal Government to take measures aimed at bolstering the total revenue accruable to its purse, nor...

Arrest Oil Theft and Pipeline Vandalization Now, ANEEJ Tasks Buhari

Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has called on the Muhammadu Buhari administration to constitute a crack team to...

Enhancing EITI role in Fighting Corruption: The Nigerian Experience

Since its establishment in June 2003, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has made considerable progress in addressing key governance issues in the extractive...

Death of Small Nigerian Businesses

Recently some traders in a certain part of Nigeria marched through the streets, seeking the attention of the governor of their state. When they...

Let’s Tap into This!

Japan is currently the world’s second largest developed economy but with a shrinking working population; analysts have consistently explained that the dwindling youth population...

The Dasukigate Embezzlement Mess and Our Financial Institutions

Since our anti-graft agency, Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), beamed its search lights on the arms gate scandal, the revelations that have been coming...

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Minimum Wage Brouhaha, Salary Payment Punch-ups

If governance is all about tackling and surmounting daunting challenges on entirely sacrificial note with huge results, you will need the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and David Ben-Gurion. Those beautiful ones are not yet born in Nigeria...

The Retired Ambassador Peter Anegbeh’s Inaugural Diplomatic Coup d’état Speech: A Rejoinder (2)

Despite the fact that the diplomatic coup d'état staged by the retired Nigeria High Commissioner to Malaysia, Mr. Peter Anegbeh, to oust the out-going leadership of NIDO-MY and usurp its leadership was considered foiled,  Mr. Anegbeh and his cohorts re-grouped and went ahead to conduct an unauthorized Annual General Meeting...

Doctors' Strike: The Fear And The Tear!

Unfortunately, too many of Nigerians suffered or lost their lives because they weren’t given the right clinical diagnosis, right medicine and or the proper medicine application...

Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961 (2)

It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a notorious “slave depot” in 1851 or annexed it in 1861 because “the permanent occupation of this important point in the Bight of Benin is indispensable to the complete suppression of the slave trade..."

Nigerian Politics and Why Neutrality is Untenable: J’Accuse Pius Adesami!

If not that Prof. Pius Adesamni is my Broda...

Are Technocrats Smarter than Politicians?

Why should a political leader appoint somebody who never campaigned for him or showed any interest in politics? Is it just enough to have distinguished oneself in one’s chosen field while turning a blind eye to the political affairs of one's country?

Igbo Presidency: Orji Uzor Kalu’s love for Ndigbo and the Unity of Nigeria

The absence of love is the cause of many problems that are associated with the world today. Inter alia, lack of love is the cause of disunity among peoples. But if there is any man who is cosseted to love, that man is Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu...

This Thing About Super-Size Me

I now know that I have reached my breaking point, not only because my clothes don’t fit anymore but it is increasingly becoming difficult and expensive to find clothes that fit...

“Two Skunks At The Picnic”

There are some striking similarities between President Bush and President Obasanjo that qualify them as identical twins, if you compare their track record as leaders and forget their skin color, their background or the yawning gap in the level of development their two countries have seen...

Toast To Kunle Ajibade Who Dared Death For Democracy 

In this season of the esteemed Diamond Award for...